I walked into the pizzeria. It would forever smell like grease and bread and the odor from kids who were old enough to wear deodorant, but their parents didn't want to say anything because that would mean that their kids were growing up. I walked through the party rooms, right past the main stage where the characters were right in the middle of a performance, voices sounding almost like the tape needed to be rerecorded or the voice boxes in the animatronics needed to be changed, but you could never really tell which one was needed. I found my way into a small employees area where some of my other coworkers were clocking in. I grabbed my time card and punched in. I went over to my manager and asked him where I was needed today. I knew how to pretty much do everything, so could go wherever they needed me. I wanted them to just promote me already, but they wouldn't.
"Alright, Sarah..." he trailed off as he looked through a few different pages in his clipboard.
"We'll need you in Pirate's Cove today." He said looking up at me. I nodded.
"He's working today?" I asked skeptically. He was almost never working. There were rare days that he was though.
"As far as I know he is. We have a couple of private parties in there today." He said. I just nodded and went back out into the hallway and made my way over to the private party room.
As soon as I got in there, I sighed a heavy sigh. The last person over this area had done absolutely nothing. It was a mess. I got to work picking up used paper plates and replacing them with clean ones. I looked over at the stage where Foxy stood. His hook was up and he stared lifelessly ahead, not yet activated. Even though I knew he wouldn't move unless someone was at the controls, he still gave off a vibe that he could come to life at any moment. I went back to what I was doing, focusing now on making sure all of the chairs were in order. I heard an almost imperceptible click. I looked up at Foxy's stage where the noise had come from. It looked like he was looking at me now. His head hadn't moved, but it seemed as though his eyes were following me. I shuddered. There was something off about him, but I couldn't tell what it was, so I just went back to what I was doing, but couldn't shake the feeling that I was being watched.
Some time had passed and I looked up at the clock. It was nearly time for the first party to start. I closed the curtain to Pirate's Cove and went out into the main lobby to await the arrival of the party. They started filing in, the kids barely contained by parents who grasped their hands as though they would float away if they let go.
"Birthday party for Karen, please gather by me," I called. I saw about 10-15 parents with children in tow make their way toward me. Once I deemed that everyone was there, I started my script. It wasn't really a script per se, but I had gotten it down well enough that I just said the same thing.
"For your safety, I need you guys to not approach Foxy's stage at any time, do you understand?" I asked, looking at each of the little faces in front of me. These kids couldn't have been more that 7. They nodded at me.
"After Foxy is done, there will be some pizza! Then, you will have some time to play the games in the arcade, then you will come back for cake. How does that sound?" I asked. They nodded excitedly. I then looked at the parents.
"I will make sure that everything runs smoothly, but I will need you to supervise your children. There are a lot of other people here and I am only one person." I said. They all nodded. I knew they weren't listening, but I pretended they did. I never had someone go missing yet, but there were rumors that someone's child had been taken some time ago, apparently the establishment was related with Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, but if only as a name. No one really knew much about it and time had turned it into something of a scary story, but no one knew the truth behind it.
I led the group back to Pirate's Cove and just as I entered, I saw the cloth of the curtain move, as if someone had been peeking out from behind it. I knew that was impossible. I ignored my shuddering again and went to a small control room just to the right of Foxy's stage after I had seen that everyone was seated. I flicked on the monitors that were in there, which showed the full stage and the party room itself. I turned on the stage lights, programmed Foxy's movements into the machine and pressed the button that started the performance. I quietly slid out of the control room and settled myself in the corner of the room and watched
the animatronic intently. He was known to sporadically break down, terrifying the guests. He was doing fine. I looked at the kids and they were all staring at Foxy with rapt attention. The parents were looking at each other, very bored. I suppose that they weren't very entertained anymore, losing child-like magic. Finally, the song finished and the curtain closed. The children looked reluctantly away, but then got excited when I told them that it was time to go to the arcade. They ran excitedly down the hall before I could even mention the pizza. The parents got up and went slowly after their kids. I went down the hall and over to the kitchen. There were three pies ready for me when I got there and I picked them up and brought them back. I had just put them on the table when I heard a cry from the arcade. It sounded like they were looking for their child. I ignored it. This was pretty common. I heard it becoming more frantic. I ran into the arcade to see what was going on. I went over by the skee ball. A woman no more than 30 looked at me with tears streaming down her face.
"My son Alex is missing. I saw him right here by the skee ball and I turned to talk to another parent, but when I looked back, he was just gone." She told me in a frantic voice. I tried to calm her, but she just grew more frantic when she saw I wasn't doing anything. I assured her I would and I went over to my manager and told him what had happened. He nodded and told me to get the kids I could back to the party room and then to come back and start searching the arcade.
"Everyone, if we could please go back to the room to have some pizza." I said as calmly as I could. I was able to get everyone ushered back and made my way back to the arcade, which was now eerily empty as we had gotten as many people out as we could. I started looking around, calling Alex's name, Looking in every nook and cranny that I could. I wouldn't have noticed it if there had been others in the room. I saw a yellow suit just out of the corner of my eye turn around a corner. I followed it. It looked like Bonnie, but was yellow instead of blue. He looked like he was carrying something. I couldn't tell what it was though. As I got a little closer, I saw a small head peek out above the rabbit's shoulder. He was terrified.
"Hey, where are you going?" I called out, hurrying to catch up to the mascot and the terrified boy. The mascot jumped, turned, dropped the boy and ran. I told the boy to get back to the party room and went to chase down the mascot. He turned another corner and as I rounded the corner, he was completely gone. There was no sign of him whatsoever. I turned back the way I came, feeling confused and uneasy.